Before I went into accountancy I did a degree in Archaeology. I specialised in American archaeology and Palaeolithic archaeology. I guess it was specialising in the Palaeolithic which meant I was so intrigued when I first heard about the Paleo diet (yes, there are two ways of spelling Palaeolithic, I suspect it’s an English/American divide [...]
Some of you may have noticed that I went for a really high protein, low fat, low carb approach to my last fat loss diet with great effect. The logic behind that decision was that I was already very well adapted to burning fat for fuel and therefore consumption of dietary fat just went directly [...]
I’ve had a few questions from people about what I do to go onto a maintenance diet and what it looks like in terms of body composition changes. Here’s an outline of my main approach to coming off a tough fat loss diet. Coming off a diet – some principles I have some very basic [...]
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I’ve found that keeping the protein levels as high as possible while significantly cutting both carbs and fat, using lean protein sources such as chicken, is the way for me to succeed at burning fat. But there are all sorts of beliefs out there in the nutrition circuit about protein, especially about the risks of [...]
